CABELL TICE

Husband. Father. Seeker. Picture taker. Owner of Orchard Coffee.

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

Paris, FR. #leicaQ2

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

@hermitudinous That’s a rough take for someone who claims to know ball. The last 30 years mean something for blue blood status.

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Nerds commercial with the Epstein lookalike.. super weird.

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Dang. Jack white actually sucks. Wild.

[brian wertheim @brianwertheim]

If you love your photos too much it’ll be hard for you to edit them

[Owen Tooelve @owentooelve]

"they said we aren't blue bloods, so we took over their conference"

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@threadbarecoffe To a point. I’ve seen businesses shorten their hours and isolate their customers who were the stretch hour customers. How far back do you pull before you just close the doors? 5 to 4, 4 to 3, 3 to 2. Just close at noon?

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

REP. WALTZ: “How much do you think the Air Force pays for this bag of bushings?”

AIR FORCE SEC. KENDALL: “I don't know.”

REP. WALTZ: “$90,000”

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

2/2 Just retire and go fishing, y’all. Not to say it’s impossible to make a successful cafe, but for every 1 cafe that makes it there are 100 that don’t.

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1/2 I hear so often that “I want to open a cafe when I retire” and I’m like.. you want to open (potentially) one of the hardest businesses to “win” at.. when you retire from being successful enough in something that you can burn 300k-700k to have a coffee shop?

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

An apron is more a mindset than a cleanliness tool.

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My 7 year old used our @etkindesign to make a pour over today. We’re drinking it together and he says.. “I think I added 3 grams too much water in this coffee.” At 1/16 ratio I think he did a great job, but dang. This kid has his own standard for dialed in.

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

@ericchristian_ Cray.

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

I think they developed Kevin from The Office based on this Steve Ballimer guy.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Steve Ballimer’s developer speech, 1999

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Oregon vs. Ranked opponents this year:

42-6 win over #19
36-38 Loss to #7
35-6 win over #13
31-7 win over #16

The Ducks are doing their best to leave no doubt.

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

@glanvillain @ggetLA Clever.

[ChargersMemes @ChargersMemes]

BREAKING: #Chargers QB Justin Herbert is now questionable to play Sunday night after suffering a back injury from carrying the whole damn franchise for yet another week

[CABELL TICE @Cabelltice]

@threadbarecoffe I still disagree with your initial point. Streaming services are $15 per month, and the time spent at the end of a day isn’t time I would say is healthy to fully log as available work hours. This is the typical hustle, hustle, hustle take that I don’t think is healthy.